Involuntarily I felt my sympathy warming toward him, for, in truth, it was a disgusting exhibition of wanton passion.

Farley Mowat -- Never Cry Wolf

I shook my head scornfully " ’Wanton,’ I said to her, ’A gentleman’s dignity isn’t in his clothes.

Patrick Rothfuss -- The Name of the Wind

But of course I was over-hopeful and naive, and should have known that he or she would likely be the product of a much less dignified circumstance, a night’s wanton encounter between a GI and a local bar girl.

Chang-rae Lee -- A Gesture Life

The salmon-hued walls seemed to acquire a wanton glow, and I vibrated with inward pleasure.

William Styron -- Sophie’s Choice

Looking at this wanton damage, I could not avoid a mental picture of the process that had caused it.

Diana Gabaldon -- Outlander

He felt certain that O’Brien was about to twist the dial out of sheer wantonness.

George Orwell -- 1984

He expressed admiration for all the great historical styles, but admonished against their wanton mixture.

Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead

OBERON Tarry, rash wanton: am not I thy lord?

William Shakespeare -- A Midsummer Night’s Dream

It is pitiable and sad, and the whole army is in despair that this most important place has been wantonly abandoned.

Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace

I believe that I have no enemy on earth, and none surely would have been so wicked as to destroy me wantonly.

Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein

The sweetness was turned to adamantine, heartless cruelty, and the purity to voluptuous wantonness.

Bram Stoker -- Dracula

Nathan was made feverish by sex, and trembled afterward, praying aloud and blaming me for my wantonness.

Barbara Kingsolver -- The Poisonwood Bible

Not wanton killing, but a judicious slaying.

H.G. Wells -- The Invisible Man

But you can’t indulge in wanton violence.

Christopher Paolini -- Eragon

He laughed quietly, his sunken, shrewd eyes sparkling perceptively with a cynical and wanton enjoyment.

Joseph Heller -- Catch-22

Of this poor heart, which the cruel wanton boy….

Edmond Rostand -- Cyrano de Bergerac

Charles Taylor, the former Liberian president, after all, was arrested and charged with war crimes in part because of his wanton use of child soldiers in waging the bloody conflict that led him to power.

Warren St. John -- Outcasts United

He killed to eat, not from wantonness; but he preferred to eat what he killed himself.

Jack London -- The Call of the Wild

Look well, for it will be yours unless we defeat the curse wanton fate has set upon us.

Christopher Paolini -- Eldest

This, in truth, his neighbours might have pardoned, seeing that saints have never flourished in those parts, but there was in him a certain wanton and cruel humour which made his name a byword through the West.

Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Hound of the Baskervilles

In their way they saw many whales sporting in the ocean, and in wantonness fuzzing up the water through their pipes and vents, which nature has placed on their shoulders.

Herman Melville -- Moby Dick

Then among them glided like a pure ray, like a Christian angel in the midst of Olympus, one of those chaste figures, those calm shadows, those soft visions, which seemed to veil its virgin brow before these marble wantons.

Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo

Weston may grow cross from the wantonness of comfort, or his son may plague him.